Finally, some legacy

After taking the week off from drafting Ixalan, I gladly busted out the Legacy material and rolled over to a friends house. We played for about 3 hours, and gosh knows how many games we got in. I rolled through a couple different deck, here are the ones I know I played with comments on each:

• Reanimator Depths- while a fun idea of mashing up two decks, it was extremely inconsistent in the draws. I mark this one up as a fun legacy deck, maybe a curveball at best. Would not play if I was serious, but something interesting to keep around.
• W/U Topless Miracles- With Sensei's Divining Top being banned in Legacy, the control deck is reborn under some new triggers. I was fairly happy with the performance, and it is a fairly powerful build. Keeping the deck stacked correctly is likely the most difficult thing to master just like under the Top version. If I had to run a serious deck, this would be in my top 5 right now.
• White Eldrazi- It feels like it needs an update to the build. The main engines are between the two different Thalias. Those two really do a number to many different Legacy builds, between non-creature spells costing more, and non-basic and creatures coming in tapped, its a massive pain in the butt. Plus it has some Eldrazi shenanigans to really get things hopping.
• Czech Pile- The version I ran is a different build that what is listed on The Source. All about card advantage, efficient repetitive removal, and countering stuff... its a pain in the backside to play against. It might take a little to get going, but that's the plan. Just slowly grind your opponent down, lock them out, and swing with a Goyf.
• OmniShow- I tweaked my all time favorite combo deck- Show and Tell to squeeze in the current trend of Omniscience. It was boom or bust, though I think sideboards would be very telling against it. Every time I got Omniscience out, I had an Emrakul handy to go along with it. Bing-bang-boom. Its still a massive hoot to cheat Emrakul out. 

I took a Lands deck, did not play it, also did not play the Death and Taxes with a splash of Red for Blood moons. That might be fun.

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Deckbox update- I managed to trade some standard lands for another Emrakul. Even go a Pithing Needle in the trade. I'll take it!

Did lose out on two Collective Brutality. My copy of Greater Auramancy was a little too beat for his liking. Odd note about it though, TCG pricing for a NM and a MP are about the same. Very strange range on that card.

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Interesting investment video from Alpha Investments. Many Modern players are getting to the point where they are fed up with the environment. They think something will increase in value, and Wizards just reprints them. Doh! In response players are either just dumping their collections, or either getting out of Modern entirely or re-investing in Reserve List cards because they know they won't be reprinted.  Huh.

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I don't understand Magic investment, but check this chart out

Yup- Beta Island. Currently clocking in at over $23 a card. A B.A.S.I.C. island. Sure they are cool, but they should never be over $10. Good lord.

The B Version is currently sitting at $23 per, and the C Version is at $15. Still super happy I got my 10 in the vault.

The Beta Forest is still cheap, Alpha isn't too much. Same with Mountains.

Looks like Plains are experiencing an upshot now as well: A, B, C 

I picked up 3 NM Beta C Swamps from TCG player in August for $7.41 each. Currently valued at $16.22. *smh* I bought them because at the time they were the cheapest Beta swamp to be had. Now the most expensive by $7.

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Lastly- REALLY good video on what to look for on cards, if you are worried about fakes. I honestly wasn't aware of some of the features revealed in the loop tests.